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"Women's Memory: Oral Histories from Transition. Theory and Practice"

Oral History Workshop at the Central European University, Program on Gender
& Culture,

3-5 November, 2000 in Budapest

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The OSI NETWORK Women's Program and the Central European University's
Program on Gender & Culture invite experts, professionals, and NGO activists
to join to the seminar "Women's Memory: Oral Histories from Transition.
Theory and Practice" to be held in Budapest on 3-5 November, 2000. In order
to coordinate and promote the establishment of archives of women's stories
in different Central-East European and fSU countries, this training program
is being provided to teach skills, to offer hands-on experience, and to
present different theoretical frameworks and operational models to promote
the preservation of women's stories. Applicants should send their Curriculum
Vitae, list of publications and a letter of recommendation to the Central
European University, Program on Gender & Culture (Nador u. 9.; 1051
Budapest, Hungary; fax/ 361-327-3296 or 361-327-3001, email/ gender at ceu.hu),
together with a statement of purpose which covers their previous work in the
field of oral history and their future plans. The closing date for
applications is 25 April, 2000. The working language of the seminar is
English. Simultaneous Russian translation will be provided, but preference
will be given to those applicants with at least a minimal knowledge of
English.

For more information contact Nargiza Turgunova, External Programs Manager
(turgonov at ceu.hu, tel/ 361-327-3034).

Description

The promotion of real social and political change requires a thorough
understanding of the past. Women's pasts are difficult to study because of
the hidden and manipulated character of the sources: the most important
emotional and psychological changes remain closed in women's bodies. By the
end of the 1990s an increasing number of NGOs, women's studies and gender
studies centers in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union have
started or are planning to start oral history projects focusing on women's
experience of transition and violence. Oral history is both a genre of
historical inquiry and a technique of obtaining information about events and
social practices. In order to establish and coordinate the foundation of
archives of women's stories in different Central-East European and fSU
countries, a training program is needed to promote comparative studies in
order to facilitate the preservation of women's stories. This workshop will
provide such training, and enable as well the development of nationally
appropriate projects.

Participants

30-35 participants will be admitted.

Preparations

Selected participants will receive a reading packet well before the
workshop. Those who are already involved in running oral history research
projects will need to prepare a brief description of their projects, to be
attached to the reading packet. All selected participants will be expected
to read the reading packet, and to prepare a brief presentation for the
seminar. Those participants coming from countries with an advanced tradition
of collecting oral histories will be requested to bring a bibliography from
their own country (in an electronic form) about the books, articles and
projects of the last ten years in the field of oral history.



Lectures

During the training experts will give lectures related to the methodology
and techniques of oral history. The lecturers will provide a list of
recommended readings (the readings will be included in the reading packet),
and will also compile a list for a possible oral history library: basic
texts, manuals, etc.

Seminars

The lectures will be followed by seminars, where the participants divide
into three groups to discuss the lectures and readings.

Workshops

In a workshop setting, techniques of making oral history will be practiced.

Field Trips

The participant will visit the two oral history archives of Budapest, the 56
Institute (http://www.rev.hu) and the OSI Radio Free Europe Archives
(http://www.ceu.hu), as well as the Statue Park: memory and commemoration
practices of communism (http://www.szoborpark.hu)